Pack | rust1 | |
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1 | 1 | |
234 | 4 | |
10.7% | - | |
6.0 | 5.7 | |
about 2 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
Pascal | Rust | |
Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Pack
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Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
The `pack`[0] compression utility that reached the HN front page the other day[1] is setting off my alarm bells right now. (It was at the time too, but now doubly so)
It's written in Pascal, and the only (semi-)documented way to build it yourself is to use a graphical IDE, and pull in pre-compiled library binaries (stored in the git repo of a dependency which afaict Pack is the only dependent of - appears to be maintained by the same pseudonymous author but from a different account).
I've opened an issue[2] outlining my concerns. I'm certainly not accusing them of having backdoored binaries, but if I was setting up a project to be deliberately backdoorable, it'd look a lot like this.
[0] https://pack.ac/
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39793805
[2] https://github.com/PackOrganization/Pack/issues/10
rust1
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Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
Kinda relevant, as I saw few comments about how safer languages are the solution.
Here[0] is a very simple example, that shows how easy such supply chain attacks are in Rust; and lets not forget that there was a very large python attack[1] just a few days ago.
[0] - https://github.com/c-skills/rust1
[1] - https://checkmarx.com/blog/over-170k-users-affected-by-attac...
What are some alternatives?
tukaani-project
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xz - xz compression in Go
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